How we hire

We’re looking for our next Noogler - someone who’s good for the role, good for Google and
good at lots of things.

Things move quickly around here. At Internet speed. That means we have to be nimble, both
in how we work and how we hire. We look for people who are great at lots of things, love
big challenges and welcome big changes. We can’t have too many specialists in just one
particular area. We’re looking for people who are good for Google—and not just for right
now, but for the long term.

This is the core of how we hire. Our process is pretty basic; the path to getting hired
usually involves a first conversation with a recruiter, a phone interview and an onsite
interview at one of our offices. But there are a few things we’ve baked in along the way
that make getting hired at Google a little different.

How we interview

We’re looking for smart, team-oriented people who can get things done. When you interview
at Google, you’ll likely interview with four or five Googlers. They’re looking for four
things:

Leadership

We’ll want to know how you’ve flexed different muscles in different situations in order
to mobilize a team. This might be by asserting a leadership role at work or with an
organization, or by helping a team succeed when you weren’t officially appointed as the
leader.

Role-Related Knowledge

We’re looking for people who have a variety of strengths and passions, not just
isolated skill sets. We also want to make sure that you have the experience and the
background that will set you up for success in your role. For engineering candidates in
particular, we’ll be looking to check out your coding skills and technical areas of
expertise.

How You Think

We’re less concerned about grades and transcripts and more interested in how you think.
We’re likely to ask you some role-related questions that provide insight into how you
solve problems. Show us how you would tackle the problem presented--don’t get hung up
on nailing the “right” answer.

Googleyness

We want to get a feel for what makes you, well, you. We also want to make sure this is
a place you’ll thrive, so we’ll be looking for signs around your comfort with
ambiguity, your bias to action and your collaborative nature.

How we decide

There are also a few other things we do to make sure we’re always hiring the right
candidate for the right role and for Google.

We collect feedback from multiple Googlers

At Google, you work on tons of projects with different groups of Googlers, across many
teams and time zones. To give you a sense of what working here is really like, some of
your interviewers could be potential teammates, but some interviewers will be with
other teams. This helps us see how you might collaborate and fit in at Google overall.

Independent committees of Googlers help us ensure we’re hiring for the long term

An independent committee of Googlers review feedback from all of the interviewers. This
committee is responsible for ensuring our hiring process is fair and that we’re holding
true to our “good for Google” standards as we grow.

We believe that if you hire great people and involve them intensively in the hiring
process, you’ll get more great people. Over the past couple of years, we’ve spent a lot of
time making our hiring process as efficient as possible - reducing time-to-hire and
increasing our communications to candidates. While involving Googlers in our process does
take longer, we believe it’s worth it. Our early Googlers identified these principles more
than ten years ago, and it’s what allows us to hold true to who we are as we grow.

These core principles are true across Google, but when it comes to specifics, there are
some pieces of our process that look a little different across teams. Our recruiters can
help you navigate through these as the time comes.

At Google, we don’t just accept difference - we celebrate it, we support it, and we
thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our products and our community. Google is
proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer.

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